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Case 25 contains on the lower shelf three va- room xi. 
rieties of the common viper , commonly denomi- Nat. Hist. 
nated the grey , and black vipers .—Second 
shelf: Varieties of growth of the common snake, 
with its eggs.—Third shelf: Varieties of the slow- 
worm, amongst which is what has been called 
the Aberdeen snake.—Fourth shelf contains 
varieties of the British lizard.—Sixth shelf, the 
species of eft or triton.—Seventh shelf, the toad 
and the frog. 
Case 26. Fishes in spirits. 
Case 27. Mollusca in spirits. 
Case 28. Vermes and Zoophytes. 
The Table in the middle of this room contains 
a selection illustrative of the orders and genera 
of the class Insecta, or Insects. 
Case 1 begins with the Coleoptera, or 
beetles. 
(A) contains the families Cicindelidae, Cara- 
bid aa (ground beetle), and Dyticidae, the water 
beetle. 
(B) ThefamiliesBuprestidae, Elateridae (spring 
beetles), Telephoridae, Silphiadse (the burying 
beetle), Lucanidae (the stag beetle), &c. 
(C) The Geotrupidae, Copridae, and Scara- 
baeidae. In this last family will be seen the cele¬ 
brated sacred beetle of the Egyptians (Scarabaeus 
sacer of Linne) ; Orchytes rhinoceros, or rhi¬ 
noceros-beetle, Dynastes hercules, hercules bee¬ 
tle, several interesting species of the Cetonidae, 
and 
